Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

  1. A-seeking sumptuous banquetings, bestowed.
  2. For I requesting to be Sestius' guest
  3. Read against claimant Antius a speech,
  4. Full-filled with poisonous pestilential trash.
  5. Hence a grave frigid rheum and frequent cough
  6. Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
  7. Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
  8. Wherefore recruited now best thanks I give